October 20, 2024 - How Truth is a Mirror into Our Inner World - Pastor Paul Vallee

In his book ‘A Mind for God’, James Emery White explains ideas' significance and impact on behaviour. As he points out in Historian Richard Weikart’s book, ‘From Darwin to Hitler’ in which he examines the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on the ethics and morality of social thinkers in Nazi Germany. Believing that Darwinism had overturned any sense of the sanctity of life, an evolutionary ‘fitness’ (especially in terms of intelligence and health) became the highest arbiter of morality for the Nazis. Weikart concludes that Darwinism played a strategic role not only in the rise of eugenics but also in the rise of euthanasia, infanticide, abortion and racial extermination-all ultimately embraced by Nazis.  The contention that Hitler built his views on Darwinian principles raises one of the most important truths a mind can comprehend: Ideas have consequences.” White goes on to share that the great challenge to the Christian faith today is not atheism but secularism, which is a faith system. “The heart of the secular religion is moral relativism, functional atheism, if you will, which holds that what is moral is dictated by a particular situation in light of a particular culture or social location. With moral relativism, moral values become a matter of personal opinion or private judgment rather than something grounded in objective truth.” In other words, where do I get my basis for making decisions in my life? Is it defined and determined by the continual shift in cultural and social mores and values? Or do I make decisions from the framework of biblical truth as found in the person of truth, namely Jesus Christ?